A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft named Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust and determine whether conditions there could ...

A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft, named Europa Clipper, will determine if conditions there could support life.

The existence of a moon located outside our solar system has never been confirmed but a new NASA-led study may provide ...

New research from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory suggests there may be a volcanic moon orbiting a planet 635 light-years ...

Until now, only gas-giant planets larger than Jupiter, our solar system's biggest planet, had been spotted orbiting white dwarfs. The white dwarf is orbited by two bodies -- the Earth-like planet and, ...

That might change once we reach Europa, a moon orbiting Jupiter. That's because unlike all the other places we've visited so far, it has a huge chance of being home to an ocean so large and rich ...

A depiction of Jupiter's sprawling magnetic field. If was visible to the naked eye, "it would appear two to three times the size of the sun or moon to viewers on Earth," NASA explained. Credit: NASA ...

An asteroid, known as 2024 PT5, will become a ‘mini-moon’ of Earth for a few weeks, orbiting our planet before escaping Earth’s gravity and resuming its orbit of the Sun. The 33-foot asteroid will ...

“It’s possible that an asteroid of the size of a dishwasher is orbiting our planet at any given time and we don’t even notice it.” The discovery of temporary mini moons like 2024 PT5 contributes to ...

but the presence of a brown dwarf orbiting the white dwarf, too, an object about 30 times the mass of Jupiter. Economist Sanjeev Sanyal Accepts Chancellorship Of Pune's Gokhale Institute ...